New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Quarto, publisher's boards, fine copies. black and white photographs, line drawings. WAS $375. The interval between the Carboniferous and Jurassic is marked by major changes in the structure and character of the Earth, associated with massive earthquakes, volcanic activity, and large scale changes of... More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Octavo, laminated boards, illustrations. A guide to a variety of archaeological methods ranging from techniques for measuring time with isotopes and magnetism to the sciences of climate reconstruction, geomorphology, sedimentology, soil science, paleobotany and faunal paleoecology.More

New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Reconstructing past environments is critical in evaluating modern environmental change and making predictions for the future. Records can be found in a range of natural sources, including microfossils, and their analysis can make important contributions to studies of... More

College Station: Texas A & M Uinversity Press, 1995. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Tells the history of dinosaurs in Texas and the accounts of people who found their fossilized remains. Dinosaurs covered in Lone Star Dinosaurs include Pleurocoelus, Alamosaurus, Tenontosaurus, Quezalcoatus, which flew like a bird, and last, but never... More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Octavo, laminated boards, fine copy. tables, graphs, remainder mark on bottom edge. Quantitative Paleozoology describes and illustrates how the remains of long-dead animals recovered from archaeological and paleontological excavations can be studied and analyzed. The methods range from determining how many animals of each species... More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. Fossils and the developing science of geology provided compelling evidence for periods of millions and millions of years - a scale that even scientists had difficulty grasping. By the end of the twentieth century, new tools such as radiometric dating had... More

New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1948-1967. Octavo, photographic plates. Binder's cloth, wrappers retained. George Gaylord Simpson was one of the great twentieth century palaeontologists and is famous for his study of the evolution of the horse. These two massive papers are seminal works on the... More